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Page 112
... Defoe's and Wyndham's novels is singularly deracinated , filled with cliches , poor constructions and repetitions : it has at once the immediacy of being casual , and the dullness of a purely utilitarian object of communication.34 These ...
... Defoe's and Wyndham's novels is singularly deracinated , filled with cliches , poor constructions and repetitions : it has at once the immediacy of being casual , and the dullness of a purely utilitarian object of communication.34 These ...
Page 221
... Defoe from Bunyan , who , unlike Defoe , was wholly given over to religion in his life : there is little such tension between sacred and secular impulses in Bunyan's work . 29 Wyndham , The Chrysalids , p . 234 . 30 Ibid . , p . 217 ...
... Defoe from Bunyan , who , unlike Defoe , was wholly given over to religion in his life : there is little such tension between sacred and secular impulses in Bunyan's work . 29 Wyndham , The Chrysalids , p . 234 . 30 Ibid . , p . 217 ...
Page 228
... Defoe , Daniel , Madagascar ; or , Robert Drury's Journal , ed . Capt . Pasfield Oliver ( T. Fisher Unwin , 1890 ) . Defoe , Daniel , Romances and Narratives by Daniel Defoe , ed . George A. Aitken , 16 vols ( J. M. Dent , 1895 ) . Defoe ...
... Defoe , Daniel , Madagascar ; or , Robert Drury's Journal , ed . Capt . Pasfield Oliver ( T. Fisher Unwin , 1890 ) . Defoe , Daniel , Romances and Narratives by Daniel Defoe , ed . George A. Aitken , 16 vols ( J. M. Dent , 1895 ) . Defoe ...
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